Against an Increasingly User-Hostile Web An Article by Parimal Satyal neustadt.fr We are quietly replacing an open web that connects and empowers with one that restricts and commoditizes people. We need to stop it. A fly in the spider's webIf you run a websiteI chose outWhat do we want the web to be? The Rise Of User-Hostile Software wwwtechnologyux
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The return of fancy tools An Article by Tom MacWright macwright.com Technology is seeing a little return to complexity. Dreamweaver gave way to hand-coding websites, which is now leading into Webflow, which is a lot like Dreamweaver. Evernote give way to minimal Markdown notes, which are now becoming Notion, Coda, or Craft. Visual Studio was “disrupted” by Sublime Text and TextMate, which are now getting replaced by Visual Studio Code. JIRA was replaced by GitHub issues, which is getting outmoded by Linear. The pendulum swings back and forth, which isn’t a bad thing complexitysimplicitytoolssoftwaretechnologynotetaking